What are some other workouts/machines that are bait to new lifters?
Bait Machines
Angel Green
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Tyler Sullivan
Smith machines being worthless is a meme. The only downside is that the fixed path leads to less stabilization being utilized by your muscles, but the machine hardly "does the work for you".
Kevin Long
Smith machines are great adjustable height pullup bars
Gavin Diaz
They're still sort of memey. Most (not all) lifters can benefit from using a free barbell rather than smith. But hey, smith is good for heavy shrugs or behind the back shrugs.
Lots of machines can be kind of shitty. The non cable kind. Or the stupid ab machine you sit in and curl forward with. They have utility but they're not my thing
Samuel Gomez
>But the machine hardly "Does the work for you"
Go do a regular bench.
Then go do a Smith Machine bench.
I guarantee you can add about 70+ pounds to your bench on the smith. Or, if you're doing the same weight, can do a million times more reps than you could on a regular bench.
The machine definitely does most of the work for you.
David Mitchell
Speaking of which, assisted pull up machine. Literally does nothing.
Ayden Price
Agreed, but if a smith is your only option its not too much worse than a regular rack. It would just take more time to adjust to correct form and stabilization when you did go back to a regular rack.
Really not true at all. I'd like to see video evidence of someone trying this.
Landon Russell
Flyes. Especially with dumbbells
Jack Wright
>It would just take more time to adjust to correct form and stabilization when you did go back to a regular rack
This is why people shit on smith. You have to learn form when you go back to/start regular benching and have to cut your bench weight back by a good amount to do so if ALL you know is smith.
Jose Bell
when my scales broke i used the assisted pullup machine to gauge my weight to the nearest 10 kg, it was kinda useful then